Here are some requested pictures of the MyMac.com staff members at the Macworld Expo.
Keynote reactions
We’re going to do a little Q&A for the various writers that saw the keynote. Comments from Nemo, David Weeks, David Every, Roger Born, and Bakari Chavanu
From left, David Weeks, Bakari Chavanu (Standing), David Every, and John Nemorovski
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Vanishing Point!
When combining images to create a scene, you might find a need to add texture or a pattern along what is supposed to be a three-dimensional object. You might, for example, add a product box to a photo of a kitchen and need to add a logo to the front of the box. Or maybe you will create a room, perhaps in a castle high on a hill, and you’ll need to add a realistic stone texture to the walls. Use the new Photoshop CS2 Vanishing Point feature to “map” a pattern to angled surfaces, such as walls, floors, buildings, and boxes.
Vanishing Point, using information that you provide, automatically determines the correct angle, scale, and perspective. (Vanishing Point is rather complex, so for simple jobs, you might want to stick with the Paste and Edit–>Transform commands.)
To use Vanishing Point, you follow a specific sequence of steps:
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What happens when you take an Atari 2600 and an iBook and combine the two? The answer is MacMOD, the four episodes DVD that features Tim and Chad from the MyMac Podcast.
This DVD features full-screen picture quality, as it was meant to be seen. All four episodes are included of the show are included on the one DVD. Special Features include the “inside iAtariMac” video with close-up of all the work done, so that you, too, can go out and build your own iAtariMac.
This DVD is $10 + $3 shipping. We accept PayPal. Click the button below, and get your copy.
Apple Computer, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have acquired the domain site MyMac.com; it’s assets, and the ten years worth of content from publisher Tim Robertson.
Complete future plans for the site are yet to be announced, although Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stated, “The domain name MyMac.com was too similar to our own .Mac. Apple is also looking for another domain name to help grow our .Mac subscriber base. Future plans include moving all .Mac email addresses over to the .MyMac name.”
Terms of the terms of the sale were not immediately disclosed.
Buying Used Macs
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$5.00 – Buy it Now! Click here!
NEW! Download a sample chapter here in PDF format!
Neale Monks will take you though the process of spending your money wisely when you can’t run out and buy a new Mac. He offers you the background on the different Mac models, back to the start of Apple and up to the almost brand new models coming out of Cupertino. He will take you through the good and bad points of each model and whether it’s a good idea to buy, upgrade or not even bother. So if you’re considering your options for buying used, Neale Monks’ book is a must-have!
Contest News! Win the RSL Digital Fidelity One Speaker System
Starting with this Thursdays MyMac.com PodCast, you have the chance to win a brand new RSL Digital Fidelity One Speaker System from Rogersound Labs. (List price: $99 US) As a MyMac.com reader put it; “Best sounding speakers under $100 on Earth”
For your chance to win, simply listen to the Thursday, March 3, 2005 MyMac.com PodCast. Show hosts Tim Robertson and Chad Perry will introduce the new contest, the Mac Quiz. Listen to the four audio clips from past Apple Computer, Inc. commercials during the PodCast and answer what Apple Computer the commercial to wins!
All contestants are directed to submit their email answers to contest@mymac.com. The winner will be drawn randomly from all the correct submissions. Only one submission per person, please. The winner will be announced on the next PodCast, as well as being contacted via email.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of Jef Raskin, who most consider the father of the Macintosh computer.
Mr. Raskin was born March 9, 1943, and died on February 26, 2005. He joined Apple as employee #31 in January 1978. It was Mr. Raskin who started the Macintosh project at Apple Computer, with the idea of creating a cheap and easy to use computer marketed to the masses.
MyMac.com conducted an interview with Mr. Raskin back in September 1999. We asked him if, at the time, not receiving credit for his role in creating the Macintosh was upsetting. He wrote “I am upset when the creation of the Mac is attributed to Jobs. It’s sloppy reporting. On the other hand, Jobs’ role in bringing the Mac out was also crucial, as were the contributions of hundreds, indeed, thousands of others at Apple and elsewhere.”
You can read the entire review at this link.
Introducing Scroll Down Books
MyMac.com is proud today to introduce our new ebook publishing division, Scroll Down Books.
Scroll Down Books are ebooks, written by some of the most talented writers in the Mac world. Our first two books are now for sale. The first two are:
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Neale Monks will take you though the process of spending your money wisely when you can’t run out and buy a new Mac. He offers you the background on the different Mac models, back to the start of Apple and up to the almost brand new models coming out of Cupertino. He will take you through the good and bad points of each model and whether it’s a good idea to buy, upgrade or not even bother. So if you’re considering your options for buying used, Neale Monks’ book is a must-have!
Happy Thanksgiving!
This cartoon is copyright Chris Seibold.
iBrotha.com, Writings from The Fevered Brain of Rodney O. Lain, Back Online!
Minneapolis, MN – June 23, 2004 – Patrick Rhone today announced that iBrotha.com, the website of the late Macintosh Columnist Rodney O. Lain is now back on line after nearly two years. Rodney O. Lain, writer, public speaker, race traitor, Christian iconoclast and unabashed Mac advocate, was known by many in the Mac community as “The iBrotha”. He wrote for various print and online publications including MacAddict, The Mac Observer, AppleLinks, Low End Mac, and more.
Rodney passed away in June of 2002, committing suicide after a long and often hidden struggle with depression. Since that time, iBrotha.com, his website, has been offline and there has been no central archive of his work. Patrick, together with many of Rodney’s friends, found most of the pieces of the iBrotha website and worked with DomainSpa, the current owners of the address, to get the site back online.
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It is getting increasingly more difficult to find links to other Mac related websites. More and more, or perhaps less and less is a more appropriate term, the Mac websites out there seem reluctant to link to other Mac websites. There was a time when almost every Mac website had a links page, a dedicated place to find links to other Macintosh resources on the Internet. One such place is MacPicks, be sure to check them out as well!
While there are specialty Mac linking websites out there to find new Mac related news items or stories, such as our friends at the super-popular MacSurfers Headline News, there is very few places to find static links, with a description of what the site offers. We here at MyMac.com aim to change that.
Since this will be a continuously updated list, I have broken the links up into sub-pages. Simply click the category below for links to those websites that fall under that category. There are some websites, which defy a single classification, such as MacObserver.com, which offer reviews, news, and commentary, so you will find those listed multiple times.
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The Garage Band Loops contest is over, and our winner is Click here!
The contest is over! Click this link to find out who won and listen to the top three songs as decided by our five panel judges.
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The Loops contest is over! Who will win?
Our team of five judges are busy pouring over the more than 100 songs submitted, and will have found the winner sometime this week! Check back often to see who won, as well as HEAR who won when we post the QuickTime version of the winning song, and perhaps the two runners-up!
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p>Did you know that MyMac.com almost became eWorld? Read the whirlwind story about one publishers quest to get a license from Apple, his run in with Steve Jobs, and the final act of turning MyMac.com into eWorld. From our April 1998 issue. Click here!
Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to send in your Garage Band Loops entry to the contest! So don’t delay, send them in today!
Check out the rules here, and come back next week to find out who won!
The winner will be chosen before February 28th, 2004, and will receive courtesy of Other World Computing an OWC Neptune 120GB external Firewire 400 hard drive.
“GarageBand is a registered trademark of GarageBand.com, which is not affiliated with MyMac.com’s contest. If you’re looking for their ongoing song contest, visit http://www.garageband.com “
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